Close to 1,000 Attend FAU Concert to
Kick off Annual Music Scholarship Event

BOCA RATON, FL (April 15,
2008) –
Close to 1,000 people
recently attended a concert by The Duprees, Charlie Thomas’s
Drifters and Peggy March at Florida Atlantic University.
The Duprees, who have
been performing their distinctive style of music since the early
1960s, performed many of their unforgettable hits including
“You Belong to Me.”
The Charlie
Thomas’ Drifters, a group with an equally long history,
performed a string of 1960s hits including “Up on the
Roof” and “Under the Boardwalk.”
Peggy March sang her
breakthrough 1963 hit “I Will Follow Him,” the song
which secured her fame as the youngest female artist to have a
number one hit, a record that stands to the present day.

The
concert was a kick-off event for an annual fundraiser to benefit
the department of music in the School of the Arts in FAU’s
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
The concert was
sponsored by philanthropists Michael and DeeDee Groskin.
Majic 102.7 was a
co-sponsor of the concert, and radio personality Mindy Lang was the
MC.
Proceeds from the
concert will help to fund endowed music scholarships for FAU music
students.
For further
information about the event or about scholarships in the FAU
department of music, call 561-297-3606.